Podside Picnic

Our next Augustageddon episode discusses Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" and how the House of Tomorrow handles there being no tomorrow

Read the story:

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Podside's next Augustaggedon episode is another insect-centered one. There's a lot of ants in this one, but no picnic - only a new world order.

Next up for Augustageddon, we visit another apocalypse on another planet in the James Tiptree Jr's 1973 award-winning story Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (link below). Keep a watch on those winters. . .

Read the story (audio version - highly recommended): https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-the-plan-is-death/

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters VI - XV of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord.

Music by Loot the Body

Our next Augustageddon episode is a tour of Mega City One, where we follow the adventures of its top cop

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun.

Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts.

Music by Loot the Body

For our next Augustageddon episode, we change gears to talk about Maximum Overdrive (1986). Written and directed by none other than the big man himself, Stephen King! Strap in, folks - we're in for a bumpy ride.

For our first Augustageddon episode, we're visiting the Zelazny classic Damnation Alley. Gather 'round the fire. . . Hope you like your mutant gila monster rare!

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters I - V of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord.

Music by Loot the Body

Time to talk about the 1989 Jean Claude Van Damme flick, Cyborg. A cyborg holds the cure to a global plague, and the only thing standing between inventively named villains is the Muscles From Brussels and his devastating kick.